Busted! Samui karaoke lounge offering underage sex for 2,000 baht

[webfact]

Busted! Samui karaoke lounge offering underage sex for 2,000 baht

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

An undercover team of police in Koh Samui carried out a sting and busted a karaoke lounge last night for offering underage girls for sex. 

 

Officers posing as customers went to the Isan Karaoke in Bo Phut.

 

As soon as they arrived three girls were brought out and a price of 6,000 baht was agreed. 

 

Arrested were the owner Sukanya Phadaeng, described as both 26 and 28 in the Thai Rath story, and the manager, a lady boy going by the name of "Joy". 

 

The owner said she had been in business for a year and her girls mostly came from the north east of Thailand. 

 

They got 100 baht an hour for sitting in the lounge and talking to customers. If they went for sex the charge was 2,000 baht with the girl keeping 1,700 baht and the lounge 300 baht. 

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

 

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[BobBKK]

No more 'Joy' in that place.

[geoffbezoz]

4 minutes ago, BobBKK said:

No more 'Joy' in that place.

Not for two weeks, then just re-open under a new name and business as usual.

[observer90210]

And how deep in the investigation did those brave officers go to bring the facts to daylight ?!!

[30la]

I am surprised that the last raid on Pattaya has found nothing ...

[Cereal]

Yeah...I'm sure we all believe the manager gave the girls 1700 of the 2000 baht fee!

[Vacuum]

1 hour ago, 30la said:

I am surprised that the last raid on Pattaya has found nothing ...

Well, with the 'salaries' mentioned in the OP, I think all of them relocated  to Samui...

[dinsdale]

So how old were the girls? 18 or 19 maybe. 

[brewsterbudgen]

6 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

So how old were the girls? 18 or 19 maybe. 

18 or 19 is not underage.  They would have to be aged under 18.

[Centra]

Good

 

[dinsdale]

6 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

18 or 19 is not underage.  They would have to be aged under 18.

20 to do that work.

[Jimbo1964]

1 minute ago, dinsdale said:

20 to do that work.

You mean the work that is illegal, so there is no legal age limit.

[BritManToo]

1 hour ago, Cereal said:

Yeah...I'm sure we all believe the manager gave the girls 1700 of the 2000 baht fee!

Yes, it's usually 50/50.

[300sd]

Somebody didn't pay or take a bribe! I wonder how many did pay that never go to the next stage? 

 

 

 

[dinsdale]

2 hours ago, Jimbo1964 said:

You mean the work that is illegal, so there is no legal age limit.

Nonsensical. Sorry you didn't understand I'm saying 20 is the legal age limit. The matter of legality or illegality of prostitution in Thailand is an entirely different matter.

[metisdead]

A post containing a derogatory inappropriate comment has been removed as well as a reply. 

[Ulic]

Obviously this particular Karaoke bar was one not owned by the police. 

[webfact]

Suspects held for underage prostitution in Koh Samui

By The Nation

 

 

A man and a woman were arrested and hit with human-trafficking charges on Monday for allegedly running a brothel disguised as a karaoke bar and prostituting girls under the age of 18 in Surat Thani’s Koh Samui district.
 

Chaiyasit Nijkham, an 18-year-old ladyboy, and Sukanya Phadaeng, 28, were arrested in a sting operation in which undercover officers came to the bar as customers.

 

 

While at the bar, the officers were approached by the suspects who offered them the sexual services of three girls – all under 17 – in exchange for Bt6,000, said Royal Thai Police's Children, Youth and Women's Division superintendent Pol Colonel Damrongsak Onta who led the arresting team.

 

The suspects reportedly confessed to having run the bar and procuring teenage girls for prostitution for over a year.

 

 

The cost of sexual services was Bt2,000 per head, of which Bt300 went to the bar and the remainder was kept by the girl. 

 

The suspects were hit with three charges, namely conspiring to commit a human-trafficking crime (by benefiting from underage prostitution); procuring girls over 15 but under 18 for prostitution; and violating the Child Protection Act (by compelling, threatening, inducing a child to conduct improper behaviour or wrongdoing).

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30371303

 

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[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

The suspects were hit with three charges, namely conspiring to commit a human-trafficking crime (by benefiting from underage prostitution); procuring girls over 15 but under 18 for prostitution; and violating the Child Protection Act (by compelling, threatening, inducing a child to conduct improper behaviour or wrongdoing).

While the local BiB get away without a word for allowing this to carry on for a year on their patch!

[Prairieboy]

Obviously a foreigner - Chinese named One Hung Low judging by the photo.

[Geoffggi]

This has to be false news, prostitution is illegal (apart from the fact that there are no prostitutes in Thailand or is it just in Pattaya) therefore how can they be charged with under age prostitution.......!!!

[300sd]

The police have a poor reputation in this country, ....everyone seems to know about them.  Although I know that this underage problem is happening here, and the people who traffic in these children are scum, I will never believe the police's information when they do these kinds of raids. It is too easy for them to play with the evidence. And they do. 

[Camillof]

21 hours ago, webfact said:

her girls mostly came from the north east of Thailand

Oh, no kidding.

[brewsterbudgen]

20 to do that work.

For prostitution it's 18. I think the owners are being charged for providing underage prostitutes not employing underage workers.

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[PETERTHEEATER]

They should copy Pattaya and purge the island of prostitution.????

[crazykopite]

????And there was silly me believing that prostitution in Thailand was none existent ????

[Ulic]

My guess is this Karaoke bar was competing for customers more effectively than the police owned karaoke bars that use the same business model.